Timothée Chalamet is himself and Bob Dylan on ‘Snl’

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If you are “Saturday Night Live” and you need someone to play Alexander Hamilton in an opening sketch about Founding Fathers, there is only one person you can contact: Lin-manuel Miranda.

And then you make him stand there in silence in most of the sketch.

This weekend’s “SNL” (which had Timothée Chalamet as both host and musical guest) seemed to begin with a sketch about the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Most of the contributors were on stage in vests and wigs, where Mikey Day played John Hancock and Andrew Dismukes as Benjamin Franklin.

“What are you saying, Alexander Hamilton?” Michael Longfellow asked. And there, in his “Hamilton” suit, was Miranda, the decorated creator and star in the Broadway musical.

“What should I say?” replied Miranda. “I say that our lives don’t matter if we lose them in the cause of freedom. What matters is the nation we are building.”

And quite right he started rapping.

For in America, all people are created equally,

America not England; We make the sequel,

And we want leaders but by one thing:

In America we will never have a king.

But then he and the role crew froze in place as James Austin Johnson went on stage in his recurring role as Donald Trump.

“Never never say,” Johnson said. “Of course it’s funny, even though I’m in many ways not. I’m in my royal time.” And like Founding Fathers, Johnson said, “I also create a new country. And like them, we do it very white.” He declared that “Dei is over,” added: “Workplaces must go back to look like the TV show ‘The Office’. Mostly white people with a fun black guy who is really bad. ”

After returning to the White House, Johnson said things were pretty much the same as before, except for “My new favorite son is Barron.”

“And he beats his head on every door frame,” he said. “Oh it’s bad. It’s like when Gandalf goes to Bilbo’s house.”

He also praised Elon Musk: “We love Elon,” Johnson said. “But to quote some of his own children, I don’t want him in my life.”

“They say he did the Nazi greeting,” Johnson continued. “Not true, okay? He simply made a new greeting. A cross between hello and hello. We call it a ‘heil’.”

While frozen in place, Johnson Potshots took on the rest of the “SNL” cast. “Who’s going to play Hegeth?” he asked “I mean, look at these guys. None of them got built. Nobody has the jaw. However, got lots of Zuckerberg options; it will be a fight.”

He also teased Miranda, as he said, “wrote a whole rap and he doesn’t get it – oh, the audience would have eaten it right.”

As he ended, Johnson said thanks for the “generous anonymous $ 1 million donation to my campaign,” and turned to Miranda and said, “I know it was you, Lin.”

Miranda finally loosened, “No, it wasn’t!” he said.

“Your word against mine,” Johnson replied.

AK, Chalamet – a recently embossed Oscar -nominated this week for his role as Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown” – didn’t make the real Dylan make a cameo on “SNL” this week. (If Dylan did not show up in Stockholm to receive his Nobel Prize, Dylan would be unlikely to come to New York to see Day and Chalamet sniff each other’s back while dressed as dogs.)

However, as the show’s musical guest, the Chalamet performed a few Dylan covers with a little help from British pop singer James Blake. In his first segment, the chalamet sang “Outlaw Blues” and “Three Angels”. (He was also introduced by “SNL” alumen Adam Sandler, which is not too shabby.) In his second musical segment, chalamet “Tomorrow is a long time.” And we just want to assume that the dog sketch was a tribute to Dylan’s “IF Dogs Run Free”.

At the weekend update desk, anchor Colin Jost and Michael Che continued to riff about President Trump’s second deployment and his first week back in office.

JOST began:

Well, guys, I never really made dry January, but this week I stopped pretending. President Trump was taken in oath again on Monday. But he did not appear to put his hand on the Bible. Well, he tried it, but the Bible screamed. The Bible Trump used was the same as Abraham Lincoln used in his deployment. And man, I wish the two could talk to each other. Lincoln could teach Trump a lot about the importance of preserving our union. And Trump could teach Lincoln to turn his head at the right time.

During his speech, President Trump said he changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to US Gulf. (Responses to an audience’s laughter 🙂 Like you, Hillary Clinton could be seen in the background laughing as he said it. While one could see Kamala silently begging his edible to kick in.

Che continued: President Trump pardoned Oath Keeper’s leader Stewart Rhodes, who served 18 years for his role in the attack on January 6th. And ladies, just like his eye he is single. President Trump defended his pardon of the attackers on January 6 and said it’s just people who love their country. You know, like how oj loved Nicole.

There was no return from $ MOKCHECHEDdathaassgetta, the unusual hip hop star that chalamet has played In his two previous host concerts on “SNL” (you tell us that Lin-Manuel Miranda would not have wanted to cooperate with him?)

But as always, chalamet games for several other sketches that utilized his versatility (and eccentricity) fully. For our cheddar was the best effort This sketchas cast him as the fleeting instructor of a bungee-cord training hour, and a later segment Where he played a barista-in-training that strives to be a standup comedian. In another era you would have killed on “Def Comedy Jam”, Timmy.